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APPARATUS FOR DYEING. No. 347,959. Patented Aug. 24, 1886.

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EUGENE RAU, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN G. WATMOUGH.

APPARATUS FOR 'DYEING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 347,959, dated August24, 1886.

Application filed December 28, 18i-'5. SrrialNo. 186,883. (No modrl.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE RAU, of Philadelphia, Philadelphia county,State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus forDyeing with Colors Dissolved in Hydrocarbons, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved apparatusfor dyeing fabrics with aniline color dissolved in hydrocarbons.

The invention consists in thecombination, with a vat, of rollers at thetop and bottom, pressing-rollers, an apron below them, a roller 1 aroundwhich the dyed fabric is passed, and

a roller on which the fabric is wound.

Reference-is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which a longitudinal sectional elevation of myimproved apparatus is shown;

The color, dissolved in hydrocarbons, is

poured into a vat, A, having a V-shaped or other cross-section. At thetop of the vat two rollers, 13, are journaled parallel with thelongitudinal plane, andat the bottom a third roller, is journaled. Thevatis supported by a frame, D, and on the same two standards, I

I, are erected, in which the lower presser roller, E, is journaled ashort distance above 0 thetop of thetank. The upper presser-roller,

I is journaled in boxes arranged to slide VCI t-ically in vertical slotsE in the standards I.

Screws G are provided in the standards I for adjusting the boxes of theupper presserroller, F.

An apron, H, conducts the color pressed by the rollers E and F out ofthe fabric back into the vat.

A roller, J, is jonrnaled in standards K on the frame D, and on the saidroller J aroller, L, rests, which slides in the forked upper ends of thestandards K. The roller J is driven a second conducting-roller in thevat, and be by a crossed belt, M, from the lower presserroller, E.

The fabric roll N is journaled in arms P of +5 the frame D, in front ofthe vat. The fabric 0 is passed from the roll N over one roller 13,under the roller 0. over the other roller B, between the rollers E andF, around the roller J, and on the roller L. The fabric is pulledthrough the vat by rollers E and F, and absorbs the dissolved color, thesurplus of w hich is pressed out by the rollers E F and flows down theapron H into the vat. The roller J revolves the fabric on the roller I),and the 5 fabric is wound upon the said roller. The fabric is thensteamed and finished.

I am aware that it is not new to press the fabric over aconducting-roller, thence under 6o tween feeding and squeezing rollers,nor to pass it through a slit in the top of the vat, and thence under aroller in the bottom of the vat and between drawing and pressing rollersnear the top and opposite side of the vat. 6

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In an apparatus for dyeing fabrics with colorsdissolved in hydrocarbons, the combination, with the vat A, of therollers B and G at the top and bottom, respectively, the rollers E andF, and the apron H below the roller E, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

2. In an apparatus for dyeing fabrics, the combination, with the vat A,of the rollers B 7 andO, the rollers E and F, the apron H, the rollers Jand L on the standards K, and the crossed belt M, substantially asherein shown and described.

EUGENE RAU.

